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May 18 2011

2:40 PM

Lucas Glover (left) and Hunter Mahan (right) bring the
beards; Paul Goydos will bring the experience in their Colonial
group.

By Mike McAllister, PGATOUR.COM

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Lucas Glover has a beard, the most talked
about one on the PGA TOUR. Hunter Mahan has a beard, too.

Paul Goydos used to have facial hair while on TOUR ... in
1996.

Now those three will be grouped together this week in the first
two rounds of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. On
Thursday, they tee off at 1:24 p.m. ET off the first tee; on
Friday, they tee off on the 10th tee at 8:54 a.m. ET.

"I'm older than both of them combined, maybe," Goydos said.
Well, not quite -- Goydos is 46; Glover is 31 and Mahan turned 29
on Tuesday. But you get his point.

"That's a great pairing," Goydos said. "Lucas is obviously
playing quite well, winning at Wells Fargo. And Hunter has played
well for the last three or four years. I'm looking forward to
it."

Asked about the need to grow some facial hair in order to match
his playing partners, Goydos joked that he had a five-day growth
going. It wasn’t that easy to see.

Then he spoke about his goatee, which he sported when he won the
Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard back in
1996.

"Arnold didn't appreciate that too much," Goydos said about the
goatee. "You don't want to have facial hair when you win at the
Arnold Palmer Invitational.

"Arnold is not a big fan of facial hair. If he asks you to
shave, that's what you do."

Goydos then continued the colorful story about his win, the
first of his two TOUR victories.

"I was so under the radar at that event, he didn't know who I
was," Goydos said. "I walked up on the 18th green. He was like,
'What are you doing? Who are you? Why are you on my green?'

"Well, I won.

"'You need to shave that stuff off.'

"OK, nice to meet you."

Whether the King remembers the story that way, who knows. With
Goydos, it's best just to listen and enjoy.